Quote Originally Posted by Bulbasaur View Post
I read this article about how heavy Internet users have a harder time focusing on reading. It caught my attention with a title "Statistically, you’re only going to read 28 percent of this", which I honestly wouldn't have doubted until I felt challenged to read the whole thing.

In addition, students have been reported as way more likely to use Google for research (94%) than textbooks (18%) or a local library (16%) for schoolwork. At first thought, I thought, "Why is that negative?". But than I realized the reason for students preferring Wikipedia or Google is that they can just skim through their results and find a sentence or two that is relevant, in opposed to actually reading and analyzing the information.

I did some thinking after reading this article. I think the Internet has been destroying my attention span. I used to be a big reader when I was younger, mainly elementary school. Nowadays, I never pick up a book for fun. I picked up a copy of Fahrenheit 451 a week or so ago, a book I really enjoyed in 9th grade. I have still been enjoying it as much as I did before, but I do find it harder to stay focused reading it.

What do you think about this? Opinions? Do you think the Internet has affected you in this way?
Whilst it may have negatively affected it, I feel like my attention span is affected more by how much my mind is 'on the job', being my youth work. Whilst I don't mind this so much, I struggle to tune out, and most of the time, I am working on something or other for youth work, and whilst I'd love to be reading chunks of information, usually I need an answer then and there. When I was younger and had less responsibility, I loved to read, and to a degree I still do. However these days, I don't anywhere near as much because I can't multitask as opposed to TV or movie. If I have nothing to do I will sit down for a few hours and smash out a book or two, but mostly my attention span is impacted by my inability to think about anything but youth work